As A Writer, You Have To Believe

At Nineteen I Was Pretty Sure I Was Going To Be A Professional Soccer Player. At That Time I Played For One Of The Norwegian Premier Leagues. But I Tore Ligaments In Both Knees, So I Started Studying Business Administration And Economics And Became A Financial Analyst, And I Worked At A Brokerage Firm As A Stockbroker.

All Interesting Heroes Have An Achilles Heel.

I'm Not A Big Crime Reader, But I'm Reading Michael Connelly's 'the Reversal.' I'm Going Back To His Novels. I'm Also Reading Keith Richards' 'life.' I'm Always Fascinated By The Transition From The Innocent Late '60s And Early '70s And The Youth Culture Becoming An Industry.

But Perhaps That's Why We Take Snaps...to Provide False Evidence To Underpin The False Claim That We Were Happy. Because The Thought That We Weren't Happy At Least For Some Time During Our Lives Is Unbearable. Adults Order Children To Smile In The Photos, Involve Them In The Lie, So We Smile, We Feign Happiness.

I Write Something That I Believe I've Made Up, And It's Only When A Friend Later Points It Out To Me That I Realise I've Been Writing About Myself Again.